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mr. portman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, we have our work cut out for us this morning. start by asking unanimous consent thoot senate proceed to consideration of s. con res. 57. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 710, s. con res. 57, honoring and praising remembrance the extraordinary life, steady leadership and remarkable 70-year reign of the king of thailand. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the hatch amendment to the preamble be agreed to, the preamble as amended be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 705, h.r. 1150. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 705, h.r. 1150, an act to amend the
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international religious freedom act of 1998, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the committee reported amendment be withdrawn, the substitute amendment at the desk be considered, the corker amendment at the desk be agreed to, the substitute amendment as amended be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 711, h. con. res. 40. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 711, house concurrent resolution 40 encouraging reunions of divided korean american families. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i further ask the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon
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the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 713, h.r. 4939. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 713, h.r. 4939, an act to increase engagement with the governments of the caribbean region and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask that the corker amendment be agreed to, the committee reported substitute amendment as amended be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that we proceed to the immediate consideration of h. con. res. 181 received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 181 directing the secretary of the senate to make a certain correction in the enrollment of s. 1635. the presiding officer: without objection the senate will proceed to the measure.
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mr. portman: i further ask that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of the following bills received from the house. en bloc. h.r. 4352. h.r. 5099. h.r. 5790, h.r. 6310, h.r. 6323, h.r. 6400, h.r. 6431, h.r. 6450, h.r. 6451, h.r. 6452, h.r. 6477. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the title of the bills.
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the presiding officer: the senate will proceed to the measures en bloc. mr. portman: i -- mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the bills be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: i know of no further debate on the bills en bloc. is there any further debate? the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not, all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the measure is passed en bloc. mr. portman: i ask consent that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 6302 which was received from the house.
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the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 6302, an act to provide an increase in premium pay for united states secret service agents performing protective services during 2016, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the johnson substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered and read a third time and passed, the title amendment be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on homeland and governmental affairs be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5612 and that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5612, an act to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 2886 sandy plains road in marietta, georgia, as the marine lance corporal squire
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skip wells post office building. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask further consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to immediate consideration of calendar number 718, s. 2852. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 718, s. 2852, a bill to expand the government's use and administration of data to facilitate transparency, effective governance and innovation, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i further ask that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 562, h.r. 4465.
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the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 562, h.r. 4465, an act to decrease the deficit by consolidating and selling federal buildings and other civilian real property, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask consent that the bill be read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask the chair lay before the senate the message to as&p s. 2854. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: resolved, that the bill from the senate, s. 2854, entitled an act to reauthorize the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act of twefn do pass with an amendment. mr. portman: i move to concur in the house amendment and know of no further debate on the motion. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not, all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it.
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the motion is agreed to. mr. portman: i ask consent that the motions be reconsidered -- be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask that the chair lay before the senate the message to accompany s. 2971. the presiding officer: the chair lays before the senate the following message. the clerk: resolved that the bill from the senate, s. 2971, entitled an act to authorize the national urban search and rescue response system do pass with an amendment. mr. portman: i move to concur in the house amendment and i ask consent that the motion be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 696, s. 3346. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 696, s. 3346, a bill to authorize the programs of the national aeronautics and space administration, and for other purposes.
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the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be withdrawn, the cruz-nelson substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered and read a third time and passed and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to consideration of s. res. 641 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 641, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the committee on the judiciary of the senate. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to immediate consideration of the following bills en bloc. h.r. 5948, h.r. 6138, h.r. 6282 and h.r. 6304. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will
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proceed to the measures en bloc. mr. portman: i ask further consent that the bills be read a third time and passed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table en bloc, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on finance be discharged from further consideration of s. 1168 and that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 1168, a bill to amend title 18 of the social security act to preserve access to rehabilitation innovation centers under the medicare program. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will be discharged. -- the committee will be discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the kirk amendment at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of s. 3021 and
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that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 3021, the bill to amend title 38, united states code, to authorize the use of post-9/11 educational assistance to pursue independent study programs at certain educational institutions that are not institutions of higher learning. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the inhofe-blumenthal substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number h.r. 436, h.r. 710. the clerk: h.r. 710, an act to require the secretary of homeland security to prepare a comprehensive security assessment of the transportation security card program, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be
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withdrawn, the thune substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 378, s. 1776. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 378, s. 1776, a bill to enhance tribal road safety, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask consent that the committee-reported amendment be withdrawn, the barrasso substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 875 which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 875, an act to provide for alternative financing arrangements for the provision of certain services and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure at
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land border ports of entry, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 4245 which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 4245, an act to exempt exportation of certain acindo derms and mollusks from licensing requirements under the endangered species act of 1973. the presiding officer: the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i further ask the king amendment be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to consideration of s. res. 642 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 642, authorizing taking pictures and filming in the senate
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chamber, the senate wing of the united states capitol and senate office buildings for production of a film and a book on the history of the senate. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 695, s. 3084. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 695, s. 3084, a bill to invest in innovation through research and development and to improve the competitiveness of the united states. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be withdrawn, the gardner substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask the chair lay before the senate the message to accompany s. 1635.
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the presiding officer: the chair lays before the senate the following message. the clerk: resolved, that the bill from the senate, s. 1635, entitled an act to authorize the department of state for fiscal year 2016 and for other purposes do pass with an amendment. mr. portman: i move to concur in the house amendment and ask consent that the motion be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 4680 which was received from the house. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 4680, an act to prepare the national park service for its centennial in 2016, and for a second century of promoting and protecting the natural historic and cultural resources of our national parks for the enjoyment of present and future generations, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and
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passed and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding the upcoming adjournment of the senate, the president of the senate, the president pro tempore and the majority and minority leaders be authorized to make appointments to commissions, committees, boards, conferences or interparliamentary conferences authorized by law by concurrent action of the two houses or by order of the senate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent today in tribute submitted by december 20, 2016, as authorized by the order of september 10, 2016, be printed in the january january 3 congressional record of the 114th congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn to then convene for the pro forma sessions only with no business being conducted on the following dates and times and that lg following each pro forma session, the senate adjourn until the next pro forma
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session. tuesday, december 13 at 8:30 a.m. friday, december 16 at 10:00 a.m. tuesday, december 20 at 9:30 a.m. friday, december 23 at 11:30:78 a.m. tuesday, december 27 at 4:30 p.m. friday, december 30 at 10:00 a.m. tuesday, december 3 at 11:55 a.m. nor the information of all senators, when the senate adjourns on tuesday, january 3, 2017, it will next convene at 12:00 noon on january 3, pursuant to the constitution. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the provisions of s. res. 640 as a further mark of respect to the late john glenn, former senator from the state of ohio. the presiding officer: pursuant to the provisions of s. res. 640, the senate stands adjourned until 8:30 a.m. on tuesday, december 13, 2016, as a future -- as a further mark of respect to the late senator john glenn of ohi
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that would be something we should look into but the typical traffic stop is the case. the fourth amendment doesn't specify how many officers enforce the parking violation and so if we go down that path, one squad car instead two, four officers instead of five, in this circumstance it is permitted, we create an unsupportable of guidance when they do. >> the issue is not the number of officers, the show of
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authority that makes it clear nobody is free to walk away. that is the critical point, thank you. >> i agree. the seizure, the showing they were not permitted prior to randy johnson showing the gun was the following, two police squad cars make a second turn, turning to the car, but officer asks did you run out of the car? no. do you jump out of the car? no. do you approach the vehicle? before officer conway testified, as he is getting out of the squad car he observes randy johnson with a gun, not even out of the squad car. >> what we are left with, he believed, what he thought it
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would be, the critical point, there is a seizure of the car including johnson and the question is the factual foundation for that seizure. >> for the level of seizure when randy johnson completely changed his fourth amendment interests when he was observed with a gun that occurred as officer conway was getting out of the vehicle. >> you agree he was seized at that point. >> a few seconds he was. >> what is your best indication of the seizure had been less aggressive, is a gun in his pants or under his coat or anywhere on officer could see it. how do we know it is inevitable? a less aggressive seizure? >> the government didn't make
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that argument, the panel's decision on that justified and randy johnson the first reaction, that was his first reaction, didn't, whether it was one squad car or two squad cars or three officers a one officer coming up with a flashing light, i can reasonably insert from this record, tried to get the gun off. >> what would have been the next step if there hadn't been a gun. >> to ask why are you stopping here. the officers testified to that. if they wouldn't have said somebody is in the store shopping then the officer would have to face the issue of citation for illegal standing or why don't you just move forward and i will give you a warrant and be on your way. could have been over in a minute or two but johnson didn't give
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him a chance. >> the brief says one of the occupants had a driver's license, which occupant was it? >> i don't know. >> somebody other than the driver. >> correct. unless there are any other questions i ask the court to affirm district court's denial to suppress. >> thank you very much. we were asking 1 million questions. take one minute and one minute only, i will give it to you. i am timing you. >> i will keep it real short. it was thanksgiving weekend, i filed a letter monday addressing the government's concern. i could be wrong with this
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parking violation is a moving violation or traffic violation. i am firm on this, this is a parking violation. if there is anything else, thank you. >> we thank you, thanks to the government as well. the court will take the case under advisement and we will be in recess. >> lisa monaco, assistant to president obama for homeland security talked to reporters about the obama administration's record on fighting terrorism and addressing security threats around. she also talked about how the white house is assisting the transition to the trump administration. this hour-long event with hosted by the "christian science monitor".
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>> here we go, thanks for coming. our guest today is lisa monaco. the president of homeland security and counterterrorism and john brennan, guests, and lisa monaco is here for her first visit to our merry band of reporters at least a speaker, she was here when the director of the fbi came a while ago, a long while ago, long long while ago. lisa monaco graduated from the windsor school where she says teachers taught us we are going to go places and they sure were right about that. i just graduated from harvard with a law degree from the university of chicago and worked for judge in the court of appeals for the third circuit and is served under attorney general janet reno, works for the district of columbia and was named to the enron task force. from there she was counsel for the fbi and staff to director
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robert mueller, and the deputy attorney general's office, confirmation by the senate and assistant attorney general for national security, held her current position since march 2013 working out of what she calls my cave or bunker in the white house near the situation room. and so ends the biographical portion of the program. now on so my colleagues can eat their sausage. now for the recitation of ground rules. no live blogging or eighting, no filing of any kind. give us time to listen to what our guest says. to curb that, for all the reporters here, as regular attendees know, if you want to
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ask a question send me a subtle, nonthreatening signal, i will call on as many reporters as we get to in the time we have this morning. and we make some opening comments and move the questions around the table. >> what is a nonthreatening signal? >> obscenity, i know it when i see it. >> good to be here. i thought what i would do is spend a few minutes talking about the moment we are in. it is a transition moment quite obviously and also one that has given me an opportunity to reflect on the threats face and the landscape that the next team
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will be coming into. let me take a few minutes to do that. on the terrorism friends, the landscape we face was addressed by the president earlier this week, the air force base in tampa and what i would say on the terrorist front is after continuing to put relentless pressure on al qaeda we have decimated al qaeda operations from the afghanistan pakistan region, killed osama bin laden obviously. and the largest affiliate in syria. we have placed relentless
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pressure on heisel which poses a hybrid threat. it is at once an insurgent army rolling through the territory we have seen over the last few years in iraq and syria. the terrorist group direct attacks, most importantly, and what i call the social phenomenon, and social media to inspire individuals to act wherever they are with whatever they connect with. and adherence to use the knife,
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so to radicalize individuals to extol adherence so they don't have to travel or get training, put us in a new and different space in the tariff fight. we are making progress against isis on all three of these dimensions, they lost 50% of the territory once held in iraq and syria. a number of foreign fighters, paris and brussels and importantly it's ability to distribute and get its message out, the private sector acting much more aggressively to address the platforms by isis but nevertheless we face a very real threat with respect to
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external operations from al qaeda's affiliates in yemen and syria which is different and isis at directing external operations but the radicalization, i susceptibility to radicalize individuals poses the most immediate threat we face and that is going to be a landscape my successor will inherit but the president spoke to the fact that because that is the case, this is a long struggle, we have to take a long view and he articulated the sustainable approach he put forward that we executed for nearly eight years, from south asia, whether it is government,
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allies or a coalition, partners on the ground come in iraq and syria but also means acting unilaterally where we must to address threats to the united states and us persons abroad and it means going after the drivers that have fueled the rise of groups like isis and the ability of it the greatest engine we have seen in the last century. the internet, the greatest engine for progress and modernity and going after i susceptibility to abuse problem. the president talked about sustainable approach and
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importantly the fact that execute on that consistent with our values and as transparently as we can while maintaining the tools we need to protect the united states because that is going to insure the legitimacy of operations and confidence of the american people in those operations and our ability for a long-term threat. on the cyber front, from 2009 the president came into office and very quickly described the cyberthreat as one of the greatest national security and economic security threats that we face and i think what we have seen is frankly an approach that has been transformed. we no longer view the cyber
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threat as a technical problem or an intelligence problem but rather a threat in the national security space that we need to deploy all tools against and the way i have approached is to take some of the lessons we have learned in the counterterrorism route and apply them to how we fight the cyberthreat. the overlap is not 100% but we have learned a lot in the counterterrorism space that we can apply to the cyberthreat, that means using all elements of national power against the cyberthreat whether it is law enforcement, military, diplomacy, sanctions, financial tools, etc.. we have to put all those tools on the table to combat the
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cyberthreat and we have been very clear that we will act to protect our interests and impose costs on a range of factors when we see their malicious cyberactivity addressing or going after us interests. >> i'm going to -- >> tell me to wrap it up. >> >> they pay me to be rude to guest hosts. wrap it up so they don't march me out with torches. >> we don't want the torches. >> what awaits an end a career. >> the next team will inherit a rapid growing threat in the states across all dimensions. the number and range of actors we see from state actors, nonstate actors, activists to
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criminal actors. the range and diversity through which these actors conduct malicious cyberactivity, the internet of things is a huge challenge people increasingly need to focus on and the tactics they are using, from destructive attacks to attacks that may make us question the integrity of data. last thing i would say the other area that is particular to me is a range of crisis management one has to do in my role in the white house from natural disasters shootings to pandemics to infectious diseases. what you have seen across the last few years is an approach
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that has been honed and tested across a range of crises but what we have done is shown the need for a unity of effort across federal, state, local and international actors, and the importance of resilience across all of those actors and the unity of efforts. the threat, i would highlight quite frankly is emerging infectious disease. so without any malicious introduction or origin something like zika has caused tremendous challenges to puerto rico for one, a transporter threat to us, these types of things, ebola is
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not a malicious introduction, so that is, i would argue, the type of threat today as we transition that we need to focus on and they need to focus on very much like in 2008-2009 the outgoing team highlighted the incoming team to cyberthreats, the emerging infectious disease threat to move rapidly across borders and caused tremendous dislocation and crises, something the next team will have to confront. it is growing, ever-growing, i will keep working get to the
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last day until we pass the baton. >> let me ask about passing the baton. jeff mason of reuters, mark thompson and phil rucker of the post and i want to disabuse you of the idea that it is a boys club, all the question is are men, not a good thing was let me ask you about the transition. the political report that the landing team has been in place for a while. not all of them the necessary security clearance but have you met your successor, how is the effort going to transfer the body of knowledge from you and whoever is going to be responsible for this on january 20th food. >> i have not met my successor
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was my successor to my knowledge is not been named, i am eager to sit down with that person. this role as many of you know is one that was created in a post 9/11 environment and was specifically called by the bush administration and this administration to have one person focused on homeland security, counterterrorism with direct immediate access to the president. when i go upstairs 50 paces from my office in the west wing up to the oval office the president knows it is something bad has happened, domestically usually or 2 us persons abroad, that is my focus and he knows it and as a result i have immediate access to the president and that is critically important in the world we live in today. i hope i have the opportunity to
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engage with my successor. we've done a tremendous amount of work to put together reams of information to carry out the president's direction which is a smooth, comprehensive and professional transition. i participated in this process. i was chief of staff to bob mueller. in 2008-2009 and what i saw was a very professional transition from the bush administration to the obama administration, something the president has spoken of that was very important to him and he told us we needed to meet that bar and exceed it. >> there has been talk about lack of interest by the president-elect in the presidential brief and what that might or might not say about interests in the intelligence community, do you have a sense of lack of interest on homeland
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security on the cyberfront be change i have not had the opportunity to sit down with the person who will be my successor but the president-elect moving to name a range of personnel, i hope you have the opportunity to sit down with my successor. >> a concerted effort by the administration to lay down publicly a lot of policies, broad, strategic things, a lot of detailed memos were kept secret for a long time. what is the goal of that, how durable do you think they will be? many of them are executive
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directives and giving you need to be on a real transparency kick is the president thinking about setting in motion the release of a torture report with several members of the senate questioning him to do by making it an executive document? >> i would challenge one of your premises, that there has been a transparency kick of late. the president talked about the importance of transparency for the last eight years and you can point to a number of actions consistently across those eight years that demonstrated that commitment to transparency and rattling them in the second term when i have been in the white house from commitment to disclosing civilian casualties
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from terrorism operations to making available the presidential policy guidance documents in redacted form in order to protect our ability to conduct operations, revisions of state secrets policy and on and on. there is a robust record of the president's commitment to transparency, i would think not transparency for transparency's a mother point here is to put down as much as possible the rationale and principles behind the operations we conduct because that will lend confidence and legitimacy and hopefully longevity and sustainability to those operations because we are going to need to continue to conduct them as a result of the threat we face and i outlined at the
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outset. the purpose for laying these things down is exactly that. i would point to earlier this week the laying out in an unprecedented way the legal and policy framework that our use of military force around the world for counterterrorism and detention, interrogation, etc.. and here again, that was an unprecedented move some of the commentators have said no other state has done this and the reason the president talked about this earlier this week, is to make clear the bar we have set for ourselves to try to set norms and lens legitimacy to the work we are doing.
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do i think it will be sustained through the next administration going forward? that remains to be seen. the next team will come in and review operations and make their own decisions. i would say there is a difference when you are in the room and privy to the threats and understanding from the and have the benefit of the professionals who work dishes extremely hard and professionally and with tremendous integrity. that remains to be seen. our hope is when the new team comes in and confronts all the information, they will take a long view. >> to follow up on the end of that question, given the president supported the release
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of the executive summary, what is the logic in not supporting the release of the entirety of the report with a parallel of actions. >> i don't know of any new news to make on this score. we provided the congress for them to release a redacted executive summary, it was after a careful process to ensure national security methods and individuals protected and that was a lengthy process the president supported and wanted to make sure we got done ended is important. >> ryan bennett from the la times. >> those questions. the obama administration took the extra step of coming up with a legal memo in 2011 to approve
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killing american suspected terrorists overseas without trial. what things are in place as you transition to the next administration to assure our capability is not abused and also when it comes to the use of torture, the senate report document, americans working for the techniques. for allowing things like that. and with regard to enforce against american proposal threat
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to the united states. and to hold government accountable. and the comments, on the presidential memorandum, described it as fundamentally -- a way for the public, the press and other governments to look at how the united states is accounted for and laying out the rationale for its actions and it is a way to point to going forward, here is the bar, the way when administration did it. at the end of the day, elections have consequences, the strictures of statutes, the constitution and ultimately
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apply, and policy will be governed by the next team. by putting it out there, by making it clear there is a mechanism for the public and press to point to and other governments to hold the united states to that bar potentially. >> the long list of things you cover is guantánamo bay. the president acknowledged the difficulties getting in close but leaving the door open for further action. the president expressed optimism a couple months ago for it to be closed. what is your take on the possibility it would close january 20th. how would that happen? on a separate note what are your thoughts for general kelly? >> on guantánamo earlier this
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week, going through with the same restrictions that currently apply, nevertheless the work that has been done to go from 242 detainees at the time the president took office to today, 59 detainees remain in guantánamo. transfer efforts are ongoing, the work that has been done across the board to engage in tremendous diplomacy and security arrangements to allow further transfers, we will continue to do that. we will follow those transfers before january 20th, but at the end of the day, the domestic transfer restriction remains in
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place, until congress lists that, bringing detainees even to serve a life sentence, to undergo prosecution, those restrictions remain in place and continue to be a number of detainees who, like -- too great a threat, dubbed by unanimous review by career professionals, intelligence, military, law enforcement and others, pose too great a threat to be transferred subject security arrangements so there will be some numbers that remain absent an ability and eliciting congressional districts to the united states that will remain in guantánamo so the president is clear we will continue our efforts until the last day. and we put a plan before
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congress, no receptivity to that plan that was put up a year ago. i can't add to what the president said. with regard to general kelly, i worked with him at south calm. and a professional, dedicated military man, he has tremendous regard for the troops who served under him. >> in a time of the last administration, is there a decision-making process? the critical infrastructure, the
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alleged tax, russian tax, part of the decisionmaking process. >> a lot of discussion about. i have been asked about this several months, and the designation of electoral infrastructure, critical infrastructure, something for secretary of homeland security considers. and jay johnson has spoken to this. there has been concern expressed, the state and local officials, having electoral infrastructure out of concern for some danger of federal overreach. the fact of the matter is
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secretary johnson continues, what he did over the summer in the lead up to the election, given the threat posed. and malicious cyberactivity. we made available to state and local officials, the administrators and owners and operators of the elect oral infrastructure, made available to the department of homeland security a range of cybersecurity tools and efforts to improve their cybersecurity. that was an important role for dhs to play, and the critical infrastructure, dhs continues to have the ability to provide
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those services and capabilities and will continue to do so. there will be continued engagement with state and local officials to make clear the critical infrastructure is not in any way an effort to intrude upon or get in between the state comptroller's and the system. >> the decisionmaking process -- >> everything would be factored in, that is one aspect of it but these systems themselves face a range of threats as i laid out. it wouldn't become find that is be confined. >> mark thompson, tara mckay, jeff dyer, frankie watkins, unless we repeal the law, we will do our best.
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there you are. >> before your opening remarks and impose costs given intelligence community on october 7th, was confident the russians had tried to interfere in the election. how has the us government imposed costs on the russians, and continued interest in congress and investigating senators for the president last week asking to classify more information about what the russians were doing, and more regulation. >> the intelligence community is looking at that.
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first and foremost, the intelligence community as it was in terms of the first stable in october because you want to do so, very attentive to not disclosing methods that may appear to identify and attribute malicious actors in the future. what i would also say is the president directed the intelligence community to discuss a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process. to capture lessons learned from that and report to a range of stakeholders, this is consistent with the work that we did over the summer to engage the congress on the threats we have seen and state and local stakeholders i spoke to in terms of them and understanding and tools to defend themselves and help them confr

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